Make American Healthcare Great Again

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 17:43:46 | Updated at 2024-12-23 08:44:32 1 week ago

Make American Healthcare Great Again
American Thinker ^ | 12/12/2024 | Peter Ollson, M.D.

Posted on 12/12/2024 9:16:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The new fifth column of Democrat and RINO resisters to all things Trump is emerging. Medical care “experts” begin taunting Trump about his never offering an alternative to ObamaCare in his first term. They are incorrect.

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017, often called "TrumpCare," was a well-reasoned proposal aimed at repealing and replacing ObamaCare. The AHCA, by significantly changing the way health insurance is regulated and funded in America primarily focused on correcting flaws in the individual mandate, providing tax credits based on age rather than income, and allowing states more flexibility in designing healthcare plans… essentially transferring more control to states and away from the federal government.

Rational offerings of effective local healthcare plans allowed competition to over time reduce healthcare costs significantly. The offered plans would underscore the strong emphasis on the role of the patient, family, and their physician in healthcare decisions as one could readily see in reading the more concisely written AHCA. TrumpCare was very close to passing in 2017 but John McCain voted no in melodramatic defiance of Donald Trump.

The many hundreds more pages to read in ObamaCare illustrate the emphasis on endless layers of government bureaucrats mandating regulations and influencing healthcare decision-making -- not patients and their providers. As one read the voluminous ACA the line, “and The Secretary shall…” implement this and that regulation predominated the legislative verbiage. The current continuing and mushrooming costs and regulations of Obamacare are readily apparent -- reflecting the continuing lie of Obama that, “you can keep your doctor.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcare

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

1 posted on 12/12/2024 9:16:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

Every regulation is a cost, so cut the regulations.
In my view, you don’t healthcare for anything up until a broken bone, but you do need to have money set aside in the event you have a broken bone. You only need healthcare for the stuff that will cost you well beyond your ability to pay.

The only regulations needed, imo, is the assurance of honesty in the industry.

2 posted on 12/12/2024 9:21:30 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )

To: Jonty30

No matter what you call it KenyanKare is socialism defined. Some states only have one provider, this is not competition. The one thing that needs to happen is inject free-market capitalism into this behemoth to open it up to other providers.

And what stopped it years ago? The GOPe & the Trump haters. Know your enemy.

3 posted on 12/12/2024 9:41:04 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Read Entire Article